Friday, January 25, 2008

Height Of Collimation Levelling

there is nothing for me - A Tribute to Helmut Schmidt!


The most beautiful should be made on free Fridays, which have a purely entitled allegorical each planet's citizens, the extensive reading of various online newspaper formats, on the one resorts as exile student, because the FAZ subscription for overseas but slightly the cost-benefit Grows beyond. My current personal favorite message I found in Spiegel-Online, where I have creative legally stolen directly the appropriate image for this post:
"former Chancellor Schmidt smoke despite the ban - Attorney determined" (http://www.spiegel.de / panorama/leute/0, 1518,530882,00. html).
I'm not sure if I seem in shock or at least drop more out of amusement most of the cheese bread did, because at first glance, it is an event of act of major significance, for the dramaturgy of this headline could even the tabloid competition . make This assumption is in more of the item nor plausiebler, is the mirror journalist precisely that cheese leaves as a first source.
So I was sitting at the dining room table, once again bite into the carefully smeared cheese sandwich, an index finger on the touchpad and read, his head full of associations said the article. As a great admirer of the former Chancellor, I can easily imagine how he, sitting before his massive oak desk learns the fact that a conspiratorial little group has reported militant Non smoking from Wiesbaden charges against him and his wife, because of injury [sic]. Helmut and Loki had in fact pleasure in performing their duties in a (probably middle class) Theatre performance Flüppchen a fire, the theater manager had kindly made them available to an ashtray.
once I shoot the memory of a portrait of Helmut Schmidt in the head, the ARD has aired in the last year. During a visit Wolfgang Schäuble in New York (the devil knows what the was doing there), namely the audience got the opportunity to Schmidt's refusal to admire the smoking ban in multiple form may be.
Episode No. 1:
Helmut runs in his saloon in New York prior to the meeting place prior to Schäuble, he is sitting (of course) back right and smoke, the ashtray Judging in the door after his 35te cigarette. The car stops, a young clerk opened the door and tells the Lord with former Chancellor, Mr Schäuble was already run down to the lobby to greet him. Helmut Schmidt looks at his burning cigarette, noting that he is still about five lines long, has the pleasure, he sees the very young employee's face and says in his inimitable, North German Art "This is indeed reizänd, let me not just to changes Raucha "and moves from inside the saloon door again. When he looks into the camera and says "so long because" you can hardly keep from laughing on the sofa.
Episode # 2:
After the meeting with Wolfgang Schäuble returns a Helmut Schmidt in a coffee shop in downtown Manhattan, which is operated by a Viennese restaurateur, who seems to have made the occasion of the visit the guest of honor extra chick. To that again to make it clear we are in New York City, a place where you will be summarily executed as a smoker, if you are not abiding by the strict smoking ban. Schmidt takes any event to the set table space, some milk drips in the already provided coffee, take a fork full of Sacher Torte and lights one. Even Ralf Husmann, the inventor of Stromberg, would not the cast of this episode better can cast. The Vienna (!) Café owner is the surprise to see clearly and can be seen even as he notices that raise in his full load of course, no ashtray is, after the smoking ban is already on for years and it has also all kept to it until now. Embarrassed, he tells one of his staff to bring back a saucer as a replacement. When asked whether Helmut Schmidt sometimes to the smoking ban believe the answers drily: "If it makes sense, fire police, then yes" and vesrtohlen smiles at the camera.

Under these impressions, imagine the reaction now from the old strategist, he the letter of the prosecutor gets the whole process is said to have commented on the way, with the words "must, this case is an impressive proof of what things a prosecutor involved. For someone in his political career with natural disasters, various oil crises, the Red Army Faction, or national and international political opponents had auseianderzusetzen is a criminal complaint with such content probably not worth more than a tired smile. Of course, should generally adhere to any rules and laws, no question, but I believe that a personality like Helmut Schmidt precisely why smoking should be allowed because he was first so vehemently and resourceful resisted and, secondly, because he knows assess with absolute certainty whether such a regulation makes sense or not. I think he would have been the last person a polite note of disturbed viewers would have ignored in the Hamburg theater.

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